How to create Quickstart Installation package for prestashop 1.7?

Question

I want to create Prestashop theme quickstart package, But I did not found any way.

For more details.. I want to deliver to my client the template, that I have designed on my localhost.

And client can install theme's quickstart package same as prestashop 1.7 installation with theme's sample data like products, categories, banner, images all.

Small help will be highly appricaited.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can create your own custom Prestashop distribution by following those guidelines. This would allow to include custom modules and automatically enable them during install steps.

However I am not sure if there is a way to force also custom theme installation without tweaking the installer, so why not just packing the theme the standard way and include your theme modules as dependencies (with also a "import demo data tool" if needed ?). This is how almost all Prestashop third party themes are distributed.

Another option, if you'd like to provide your customers a ready to use environment with custom themes / already hooked modules, is providing him a ready-to-use ZIP package with already installed environment + SQL database dump.